Beaux Arts Ball [held in the Canfield Casino - dress as your "favorite book" theme -students seated on the floor with their dates, including Dorothy Reuter '40, President of Studio Arts Club and her fiance, Tom Bennett as a "Turkish couple" (center) and winners of the second award for best costume, Margaret Muckenfuss '40 (2nd from right) and her escort, Al Erdman (far right) of Rutgers, dressed respectively as Esmeralda and Quasimodo from the "Hunchback of Notre Dame"]
gelatin silver print ; 20.3 x 25.4 cm. ; [printed later from original negative]
Local Note
See "Skidmore News," February 14, 1940, p.5; February 28, p.1 and 2; March 6, p.3 - a vintage print of this image is located in the Skidmore College Archives - Vertical Files - Campus Events - Photographs Beaux Arts Ball. 1938/39-1949.
Archive Location
George S. Bolster Photograph Collection ; Binder #5